CRIMEA VOTES
OVERWHELMINGLY
FOR UNION WITH RUSSIA:
The Crimean people have voted overwhelmingly to remove
themselves from the diktat of the NATO/EU backed Kiev Junta and apply for union
with the Russian Federation in an act of historic justice for themselves and
the future of their nation.
In Sunday’s referendum, 16 March, 2014, 97% of those voting
supported the proposition of joining the Russian Federation despite threats of
boycott and NATO/EU sanctions and abuse from the Junta leaders in Kiev.
Washington’s muppet and leader of the Kiev traitors, Yatseniuk, threatened “burning
the ground” under “seperatists” but all Yatseniuk commands now is a viper’s
tongue. The remnants of Ukrainian military in Crimea are either leaving or
joining the new Crimean defence forces.
The 97% vote means that large numbers of Tatars and
non-Russian minorities must also have voted ‘Yes’ in defiance of the vicious
propaganda of the Kiev Junta and the NATO/EU exploiters stating that their
lives would be endangered in a free Crimea.
Fireworks exploded and Russian flags fluttered above as jubilant
crowds gathered in the centre of Simferopol after the results became known that
there would be a landslide victory for the proposal to rejoin Russia. Crimean
leader Sergiy Aksyonov told a cheering crowd of thousands on Lenin Square in the
capital that Crimea was "going home" after the emphatic referendum
result, the crowd singing the Russian anthem after the preliminary results were
revealed.
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| Jubilant Crimeans celebrate the Referendum result in Simferopol |
Maliciously described
by the Western propaganda machine as “annexation” which is a unilateral act by
one country against another without consent, the Crimean vote is a democratic
expression of the will of the Crimean people and their right to self-determination
while the application by the Crimean Parliament and Government to become part
of the Russian Federation requires reciprocal consent by the Russian State Duma
and cannot, in any factual way be described as “annexation”. Russia today
recognised the independence of Crimea and the application to join the Russian
Federation will be considered in a legal and proper way in due course.
It is understandable that the fury and gnashing of teeth in
Washington and Brussels and their miserable muppets in Kiev knows no bounds as
their grand scheme to subsume Ukraine into the NATO/EU bloc has come crashing
down around their ears
and the billions of dollars spent on it goes to waste. Several
EU leaders joined up to support Washington’s move to impose financial and
diplomatic sanctions against Russia but Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Cyprus have
not joined the bandwagon.
THERE ARE INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS:
Western propaganda outlets, both radio and press,
continually lie about the process of the Crimean referendum. “There are no
international observers” and “The referendum is being held at the point of a
gun” are two of the main lies being peddled in the last few days. There are, in
fact independent international observers present.
135 international observers have arrived from 23
countries, including Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Latvia and Poland. Among those monitoring the referendum are members of
the EU and national European parliaments, international law experts and human
rights activists.
No violations at the Crimea referendum have been reported by
the international observers currently present in the republic:
“It’s all quiet so
far,” Mateus Piskorkski, the leader of the European observers’
mission and Polish MP. “Our
observers have not registered any violations of voting rules.”
Another observer, Ewald Stadler, member of the European
Parliament, dispelled the “referendum
at gunpoint” myth, by saying he felt people were free to make their
choice.
“I haven’t seen
anything even resembling pressure,” he said. “People themselves want to have their say.”
Many were impressed by the turnout, which appeared to be so
high as to have people stand in lines to get to the ballot box in the morning.
The turnout for the referendum in Crimea at 17.00 local time (15.00 GMT) was 70
per cent, the referendum’s website said.
“The lines are very
long, the turnout is big indeed,” a member of the international
observer mission, Bulgarian parliament member Pavel Chernev, said. “Organization and procedures are 100 percent
in line with the European standards,” he added.
Quite contrary to the propagandist approach taken by the EU
and the US, most of them said they believed the referendum in Crimea was
legitimate.
“The US and also
the EU, they only respect international law, if it’s in favour of their
opinion,” Johann Gudenus, member of the city parliament of Vienna,
said. “Our opinion is – if people
want to decide their future, they should have the right to do that and the
international community should respect that. There is a goal of people in
Crimea to vote about their own future. Of course, Kiev is not happy about that,
but still they have to accept and to respect the vote of people in Crimea”. Johannes Hübner, an Austrian MP said he felt he had to come
to Crimea to get the real picture of what was happening on the peninsula.European media is very distorted,” he
said
Aymeric Chauprade political scientist and geopolitician from
France believes the referendum is justified by Russian and Ukrainian history.
“Yes, I think the
referendum is legitimate,” he said. “We are talking about long-term history. We are talking about the
Russian people, about the territories of the former USSR with artificial
borders. So, I think it’s a legitimate referendum that will give opportunity
for this Russian population’s reunification with Russia”.
Tatjana Ždanoka, European parliament MEP, representing
Latvia, says the fact that the EU and the US refuse to see the referendum as
legitimate can only be explained by double standard applied by Western leaders
to the situation.
“The European
parliament’s resolution demands that Crimeans comply with the Ukrainian
constitution and says that the referendum is against that constitution. But
that’s the same as to demand Kosovars to comply with the constitution of the
former Yugoslavia, which naturally never happened. Double standards are
everywhere in global politics. We know it from history. We see it now”.
Observers from Serbia also praised the referendum as free
and legitimate.
“People freely
expressed their will in the most democratic way, wherever we were,” Serbian
observer Milenko Baborats said “We
were amazed by the amount of people who came to the polls. After just 1 hour of
voting in most of the polls we visited around 15 percent of voters already cast
their votes.” “During the day we
didn’t see a single serious violation of legitimacy of the process,” he
added.
According to another Serbian observer they visited eight
polling stations in Simferopol, Alushta and Yalta:
“We spoke to the
members of the electoral commission and the people who came to participate in
the referendum. The voting process was very well organized,” Zoran
Radoychich said. “We did not
notice any pressure on voters – that was our general impression.”
“As compared to
Kosovo, where the referendum was indeed held under the pressure of Western
nations, here people are voting freely.”
The foreign affairs editor from Chronicles Magazine, Srdja
Trifkovic, who is also an observer at the Crimean referendum has said that he
drove from Simferopol to Yalta on Saturday and back and he “didn’t see a single barrel (of a gun)
unless you count two speed traps, one on the way out and one on the way back
where policemen had guns.”
“The presence of
troops on the streets is virtually non-existent and the only thing resembling
any such thing is the unarmed middle-aged Cossacks who are positioned outside
the parliament building in Simferopol. But if you look at the people both at
the voting stations and in the streets, like on Yalta’s sea front yesterday
afternoon, frankly I think you would feel more tense in south Chicago or in New
York’s Harlem than anywhere round here,” he said. Trifkovic added
that in regard to referendums the western powers function on the basis of
situational morality and “not on
any firm principle.”
